AEssenseFresh Business Consulting

AEssenseFresh is your precision aeroponics partner for experienced guidance for your project from investment planning to operational cost, grow procedures, and consultancy services worldwide. We will guide you from design to successful results with 24x7 grow support up to the sale of your product. We are experts on growing spectacular roots and beautiful flowers with global business experience. With AEssenseFresh, you will lead with consistent premium flower production in zero-soil environmentally friendly aeroponics saving water and resources in the process.

Please review the details of our services below:

 

Business Consulting

  • Detailed Operational Expense & Financial Analysis

  • Customized to your facility

  • Material usage requirements

  • Labor

  • Electrical demand

  • Water usage

  • Nutrient usage

  • CO2 usage

  • Fully loaded operational expense calculations

  • CAPEX and OPEX customized results

 

Project Management Services

Farmagrowers Client Facility, South Africa

FarmerGrowers, client facility, in South Africa

  • Project planning 

  • Scheduling & budget 

  • Contract resourcing 

  • Execution, remote or onsite quality assurance 

  • Change management, project monitoring, & status reports 

  • Timeline & risk management communications 

  • Start-up initiation, test, training, operation, & transfer 

  • Recommendations on best practices, SOPs, GMP, and GACP methods

 

Contruction Management Consulting

  • Layout & Facility Design

  1. Site visits

  2. SOP Integration & Walk-throughs

  3. Cleaning/IPM review

  • Partner Liaison: Indoor building, Greenhouse

  • Partner Liaison: Mechanical Electrical Plumbing (MEP), Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC)

  • Consulting on harvest, post processing & curing, storage best practices

 

Cultivation Training

Large Growth Facility in Shanghai, China

Understanding botany and plant growth in aeroponics

  • High quality plant production

  • Water quality defined

  • Grow partner and employee cultivation training

    • Introduction to integrated pest management

 

Guardian Grow Manager Central Management Control Software (GGM) Training

Guardian Grow Manager on a mobile device

Using GGM software

  • Guardian Software overview

  • Cloud Intelligence

  • Guardian Grow Manager custom support

    • Direct one-on-one online tutorials & hands-on training

    • User Manual

    • Alert Help

    • Control of ‘Sandbox’ (Training) GGM server for new grow partners

    • Automated Global Services Help Desk Ticketing System

 

Lighting Training

AEssenseFresh AERIX Lights above growing gerberas in an AEtrium 4 system.

  • Selecting grow lights

 

Installation Set-up & Support Consulting

Assembly training

  • Plumbing & Piping Diagrams: AEtrium-4, AEtrium-2.1, AEtrium Dosing Unit, AEtrium Double Deck, Cooling Coils

  • Cleaning methods for the AEtrium-2.1 and AEtrium-4

    • Cleaning & Disinfecting Standard Operating Procedures on the private Grow Partner Portal

    • Filter Cleaning on Grow Partner Portal

  • Maintenance of the AEtrium-2.1 and AEtrium-4

    • Standard Operating Procedures

  • Troubleshooting training for growers

  • Installation Qualification (IQ) of systems

    • Nutrient, and pH Sensor Calibration

  • Operation Qualification (OQ) of systems

    • Nutrient Recipe Automation & Control

    • Growth Plan Library

    • Easy Grow Recipe Customization

    • Performance Tracking, Data Logging, & Backup

    • Your Personal Interactive Site Map - Increased Visibility

    • Simple Intuitive Interface with Personalized Alerts

    • Remote Access Keeps Every Machine At Your Fingertips

  • Consultation on genetic selection and plant breeding

 

Grow Partner Cultivation Support

Process Qualification (PQ) of Procedures

  • 24 hour off-site monitoring

  • Diagnose, troubleshoot, resolve and/or repair AEssenseFresh equipment remotely or on-site

  • Troubleshoot and repair systems to the assembly/component level

  • Quality control feedback

  • 24-hour plant science support for all global grow partners with automated service desk ticket system

  • Maintenance of grow partner relationships

  • Proactive outreach to grow partners

  • Facilitate development and sharing of grow partner knowledge and experience

  • Yield enhancement consulting

  • Room and facility cleaning guidance

  • Consultation during facility design and construction

  • Site visits during construction, commissioning, and running

    • Canopy Management Methods

  • Develop SOPs per facility

    • Standard Operating Procedures

    • GMP & GACP consulting

  • Continuous Improvement Plan: provide support to low performing grow partners where appropriate

  • Provide guidance on developing fertilization regimes

 

Integrated Pest Management

Building An Integrated Pest Management Plan and SOP

  • Troubleshooting plant issues eg. pathogen infections

    • Water quality maintenance & treatment

    • Aeroponic Systems Best Practices

      • Pathogens, Chemical Oxidizers, & ORP

      • ORP (Oxygen Reduction Potential) Explained

      • H2O2 Explained

      • Chlorides (HOCl) Introduced

      • Storing & Dosing Hypochlorous Acid

      • Dosing Explained - %, PPM, Dilution Ratios

 

Experienced Service Liason

Integrate/consult with construction partners

  • Integrate/consult with mechanical electrical plumbing partners

  • Integrate/consult with environmental management partners

  • Liaise between grow partners and technical team to:

    • Implement improvements requested by grow partners

    • Inform grow partners of changes and improvements to the system.

    • Maintain grow partners goodwill

    • Bridge the gap between grow partners and AEssenseFresh to ensure grow partner success